Are some jobs 'too feminine' in aesthetics?

[Katie_Kitty]

Maybe it’s because in the real world in western society women can wear such a broad range of clothes and will still be considered feminine, no questions asked, while for males their options are rather more limited? I’d love the same kind of freedom for men btw, I think it’s awesome just to go with my mood that day and wear a frilly dress, or simple jeans and a sweater, or… etc. I think for a lot of men that kind of ‘anything goes!’ is sort of unfamiliar territory. In that sense I think Kolsykol summed it up quite well with what we are accustomed to culturally, and men are not at a place in time where wearing frilly dresses with lots of lace and flowers weaved in feels perfectly masculine. Even if it used to be different, or will be different again.

Well it's not other people telling them they can't dress in caster robes. It's them complaining that a caster in caster robes is apparently awful simply because the caster is male. Doesn't make any sense to me.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Well it's not other people telling them they can't dress in caster robes. It's them complaining that a caster in caster robes is apparently awful simply because the caster is male. Doesn't make any sense to me.

I doubt there would be such complaints if there were actually more options for them beyond robes, plenty women have similar complaints about the casting and healing gear not just the men.. myself included. It's less a male caster in robes sucks more WHY can I ONLY be in robes!? A few of the robes I have seen on males can make them look pretty frumpy or just swallows them whole (see Scylla's robe of healing), they just a big line of fabric that is fairly dull to look at. Others just look comical, a hrothy in lvl 50 whm gear just looks weird to me! xD

Some artwork I have seen people come up with for caster/healer fits the classic style but ALSO suits a male figure nicely. For example, (some of the men might disagree but imo this one is a LOT better than many of the robe's you currently have!) These are for the contest I believe, some really good designs props to the people who put in a design!

[Wasselin]

There are a LOT of robes, but there are other options as well.

Part of the reason that robes are so huge, and don't have a slimmer silhouette is because of clipping. That first image looks great, but would would it look like from behind as your character is running? Most likely your legs would clip through it. The back of the robe has to be designed in a way so that while running characters legs don't clip through the back of it, while at the same time it looks like it's hanging down and not glued to the back of your legs.

The bottom one looks great, but there is gear for healers that does have that same silhouette (Even though it doesn't look quite the same).

[Aelin_Ashryver]

There are a LOT of robes, but there are other options as well.

Part of the reason that robes are so huge, and don't have a slimmer silhouette is because of clipping. That first image looks great, but would would it look like from behind as your character is running? Most likely your legs would clip through it. The back of the robe has to be designed in a way so that while running characters legs don't clip through the back of it, while at the same time it looks like it's hanging down and not glued to the back of your legs.

The bottom one looks great, but there is gear for healers that does have that same silhouette (Even though it doesn't look quite the same).

I can get that arguement, but also there is sooo much already that clips as you run anyway it feels like a rather moot point honestly. Or even many hairstyles ruining some very lovely high collars.. q.q